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Invitation to the Voyage Selected Poems and Prose
ISBN: HB: 9780857425386, Seagull Books, February 2020
200 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm
"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language", said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through his multifaceted writing. His sensuous poems – dreams of escape to an impossible, preferably tropical, el...
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Monsoon
ISBN: HB: 9780857426956, Seagull Books, February 2020
176 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
An actor of traditional Hindu dramas meets an adolescent girl who turns out to be his half-sister. A man returns to Goa from Mozambique to father a child for a family whose unmarried daughters has produced no heirs. Another man feels out of place in...
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Of Morsels and Marvels
ISBN: HB: 9780857426932, Seagull Books, February 2020
324 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Conde, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. A cook, she explains, uses spices and flavors...
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Phantom Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780857427007, ISBN: HB: 9780857423771, Seagull Books, February 2020
720 pp., 22.8x19 cm, 37 halftones, 3 facsimiles
One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, "Phantom Africa" is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal – by turns melodramatic, self...
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Soutine's Last Journey
ISBN: HB: 9780857426925, Seagull Books, February 2020
292 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
August 6, 1943. Chaim Soutine, a Jewish painter from Belorussia and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani, and Picasso, is hidden in a hearse that's traveling from a small town on the Loire towards Nazi-occupied Paris. Suffering from a stomach ulcer,...
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Irving Berlin New York Genius
ISBN: HB: 9780300180480, Yale University Press, January 2020
424 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called – by George Gershwin, among others – the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music", legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; "he is American musi...
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Rav Kook Everything is Rising
ISBN: PB: 9780300248579, ISBN: HB: 9780300164244, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the twentieth century. A maverick thinker, he combined strict traditionalism with an embrace of modernity and its heresies, Orthodoxy and tolerance, sc...
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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2019, Issue 48
ISBN: PB: 9781846382116, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 29.8x19 cm
Launched in 1999, Afterall is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. Vol...
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Little Bit of Numerology An Introduction to Numerical Divination
ISBN: HB: 9781454936114, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2020
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illus.
Through the energetic power of numbers, it's possible to gain insights into the core of who we are and what specific gifts and challenges we are here to master. Practicing numerologist Novalee Wilder provides an overview of the ancient esoteric syste...
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Little Bit of Ayurveda An Introduction to Ayurvedic Medicine
ISBN: HB: 9781454936411, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2020
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illus.
Known as the "grandparent" of modern medicine and the sister philosophy of yoga, Ayurveda lets patients take control of their own health by focusing on prevention, not medical intervention. Practitioners become active participants in their own wellne...
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